# modem
## English
### Etymology

Clipping of modulator-demodulator

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈməʊdəm/, /ˈməʊdɛm/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) enPR: mō'dəm, mō'dĕm, IPA: /ˈmoʊdəm/, /ˈmoʊdɛm/

### Noun

modem (plural modems)
* (computing) A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog telephone signals and vice versa, allowing computers to communicate over a phone line.
** 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 416:Choose and rent, over PC and modem and fiber-optic line, from tens of thousands of second-run films, documentaries, the occasional sport, old beloved non—‘Happy Days’ programs, wholly new programs, cultural stuff, and c. […]

#### Derived terms

* cable modem
* fax modem
* modemless
* nonmodem
* null modem
* radio modem
* smartmodem
* softmodem
* USB modem
* Winmodem
* wireless modem

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: մոդեմ (modem)
* → Catalan: mòdem
* → Dutch: modem
* → Esperanto: modemo
* → Finnish: modeemi
* → French: modem
* → German: Modem
* → Hebrew: מודם (módem)
* → Hungarian: modem
* → Ido: modemo
* → Japanese: モデム (modemu)
* → Korean: 모뎀 (modem)
* → Norman: modem
* → Polish: modem
* → Portuguese: modem
* → Russian: моде́м (modém)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
** Cyrillic script: модем
** Latin script: modem
* → Spanish: módem
* → Swedish: modem
* → Turkish: modem
* → Vietnamese: modem

#### Translations
### Verb

modem (third-person singular simple present modems, present participle modeming or modemming, simple past and past participle modemed or modemmed)
* To transmit by modem.
** 1992, Jim Kimble, How to get started with modems, page 73:Personal modeming is most prevalent in the U.S., where a modem generally doesn't have huge taxes slapped on it, and after-tax income is comparatively high.
** 1994, Carole Marsh, Jurassic Ark! Alaska Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Creatures, page 7:“Books” can even be faxed or modemed to you!
** 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 19:He had to modem in to the agency and say that there was an emergency […]

### References

* ↑ R. Stockwell and D. Minkova, 'English Words: History and Structure', Cambridge University Press (2001).

### Anagrams

* domme, ommed

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English modem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmoːdəm/, /ˈmoːdɛm/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

modem m or n (plural modems, diminutive modempje n)
* modem

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English modem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔ.dɛm/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

modem m (plural modems)
* modem

#### Descendants

* Turkish: modem

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English modem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmodɛm]
* Hyphenation: mo‧dem
* Rhymes: -ɛm

### Noun

modem (plural modemek)
* (computer hardware) modem

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

## Norman
### Etymology

Borrowed from English modem.

### Noun

modem m (plural modems)
* (Jersey, computing) modem

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English modem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔ.dɛm/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔdɛm
* Syllabification: mo‧dem

### Noun

modem m inan (related adjective modemowy)
* (computing) modem

#### Declension
### Further reading

* modem in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* modem in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English modem.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmo.dẽj̃/ [ˈmo.dẽɪ̯̃]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmɔ.dɛm/ [ˈmɔ.ðɛm]

### Noun

modem m (plural modems or modens)
* (networking, computer hardware) modem (a device that encodes computer signals into telephone signals and vice versa)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English modem.

### Noun

modem n (plural modemuri)
* modem

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English modem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mǒdeːm/
* Hyphenation: mo‧dem

### Noun

mòdēm m (Cyrillic spelling мо̀де̄м)
* modem

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Noun

modem m (plural modems)
* Misspelling of módem.

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English modem.

### Noun

modem n
* modem

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | modem | modems |
| singular | definite | modemet | modemets |
| plural | indefinite | modem | modems |
| plural | definite | modemen | modemens |

## Vietnamese
### Alternative forms

* mô đêm

### Etymology

Borrowed from English modem.

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [mo˧˧ ʔɗem˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [mow˧˧ ʔɗem˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [mow˧˧ ʔɗem˧˧]
* Phonetic spelling: mô đêm

### Noun

modem
* modem